On the latest LGM Podcast Cheryl, Dan, and myself talk through the “peace” deal that the Trump administration attempted to foist upon Europe, Ukraine, and possibly Russia last week. We work through what we now know of the several-day process of revealing the plan, discuss its prospects, and then move to a point-by-point discussion of its elements. Time constraints prevented us from getting all the way through, which is probably for the best because the plan has now been reduced to nineteen points. Our assessment? This is less a plan than a mess of contradictory impulses, and it will be a struggle to develop anything useful out of it.

Some links:

Transcript is here.

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On the latest LGM Podcast Scott, Erik, and I jabbered about this most unusual NFL season. We recorded on Wednesday evening and nothing about the result of last night’s Buffalo-Houston game exactly transformed our conclusions, rather reinforcing the enigma that is the Josh Allen Bills. We also decided to just go ahead and publish the whole thing rather than break it into two parts, so save this one for a really long drive/run/walk/train ride/colonoscopy.

Transcript is here.

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On the latest LGM podcast Dan and I had the opportunity to interview Joel Willett, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Kentucky’s 2026 US Senate seat. We talked about:

Joel’s donation page is here and his website is here, from which you can follow all of his socials if that’s the kind of thing you would normally do.

Transcript is here.

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On the latest LGM podcast Scott and I spoke with friend-of-the-blog and current candidate for the Democratic nomination in Kentucky’s sixth district Erin Petrey, who many of you will remember from previous posts. We talked about Erin’s reasoning for joining the race, some of the positions that she has staked out on the campaign trail, and finally some snippets from the day-to-day life of a Congressional candidate.

Also, the best question is the Nazi tattoo question.

Erin’s donation page is here and her website is here, from which you can follow all of her socials if that’s the kind of thing you would normally do.

Transcript is here.

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On the latest LGM Podcast I had the opportunity to speak with longtime contributor Chris Koski, who is currently at Ground Zero in Portland, Oregon. Chris and I talked about the current state of anti-ICE protests, the legacy of the 2020 George Floyd protests, the possible effects of a National Guard deployment to Portland, and the general cultural impact of years of anti-Trump protest.

Transcript is here.

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On the latest LGM Podcast I had the good fortune to interview Dr. Tim Benbow, Professor of Strategic Studies at King’s College London. Tim has recently been researching the history of the Royal Navy’s decisions to keep, and then to give up, its battleships after World War II. We talk through the role of the battleship in Royal Navy doctrine prior to and during the war, tracing changes in attitudes as the course of the conflict brought other technologies to the fore.

Give it a listen.

Transcript available here.

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On the latest LGM Podcast I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Kate Epstein of the Rutgers University Department of History. We talked through her two books, Analog Superpowers (about fire control equipment) and Torpedo (about, well, torpedoes), the latter of which I reviewed here. We discussed the mechanics of fire control and the history of theft, plagiarism, and legal dispute in the UK and the US, talked about how to build a legal regime that can support an innovative defense industrial base, worked through how these legal structures created the environment in which the Manhattan Project prospered, compared the “young and hungry” versus the “old and established” military organization in terms of innovation, and finally made some observations about the state of the modern defense patent regime.

If any of that sounds interesting, tune in!

Transcript available here.

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On the latest LGM podcast Paul and I sat down with Friend of the Blog Dean Spears to talk about his and Michael Geruso’s book, After the Spike. Paul and I each had some thoughts on the subject and Dean was good enough to send along copies and to offer a conversation. In the podcast we talk through the numbers, the social impact, and the difficulties in folks to come to an understanding of a thing that has literally never happened through all of human history.

Transcript available here.

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Here’s the second half of our NFL preview podcast, where Scott, Erik, and I talk about the NFC. And for posterity, this is who we picked for the conference finalists:

Transcript available here.

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Are you ready for some football? We are. As has become an annual tradition, Erik, Scott and myself previewed the NFL season. The first half of the podcast concerns the AFC. We’ll publish the second half on Thursday prior to the Cowboys-Eagles season opener.

Transcript available here.

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